Clustering identifies endotypes of traumatic brain injury in an intensive care cohort: a CENTER-TBI study | Critical Care |...
... blood lactate, oxygen saturation, serum creatinine, glucose, base excess, pH, arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide, and ... A cluster similarity index was used for robust determination of optimal cluster number. Mutual information was used to quantify ... Determination of number of clusters. We used a cluster stability to robustly determine the most appropriate number of clusters ... blood lactate, oxygen saturation, serum creatinine, glucose, base excess, pH, arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide, and ...
Cerebral autoregulation: every step counts | Critical Care | Full Text
Continuous monitoring of cerebrovascular pressure reactivity allows determination of optimal cerebral perfusion pressure in ... pressure reactivity index and mean velocity index to evaluate cerebrovascular reactivity during induced arterial blood pressure ... Assessment of autoregulation by means of periodic changes in blood pressure. Stroke. 1995;26(5):834-7. ... However, the methods used for the assessment of cerebral autoregulation and the determination of LLR in this article may be ...
4G/5G polymorphism of PAI-1 gene is associated with multiple organ dysfunction and septic shock in pneumonia induced severe...
... mean arterial pressure of less than 60 mmHg or a systolic blood pressure decrease of more than 40 mmHg in the absence of other ... Of the 208 enrolled patients one was excluded due to insufficient DNA quality for genotype determination. The median age of the ... Sepsis-induced hypotension was defined as systolic blood pressure of less than 90 mmHg, ... Genomic DNA was extracted from white blood cells using the method described by Miller and colleagues [28]. The PAI-1 -675 locus ...
Oliguria as predictive biomarker of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients | Critical Care | Full Text
Oliguria preceding AKI-Cr was more likely to be associated with lower blood pressure, higher heart rate and use of vasopressors ... lower blood pressure, higher central venous pressure and were more likely to be on vasopressor or inotropic medication. ... A comparison of observed versus estimated baseline creatinine for determination of RIFLE class in patients with acute kidney ... Oliguria preceding AKI-Cr was more likely to be associated with lower blood pressure, higher heart rate, and use of ...
Creatinine-based definitions: from baseline creatinine to serum creatinine adjustment in intensive care | Critical Care | Full...
A comparison of observed versus estimated baseline creatinine for determination of RIFLE class in patients with acute kidney ... Rodriguez-Iturbe B, Herrera J, Garcia R. Relationship between glomerular filtration rate and renal blood flow at different ... although some authors found an increase in the transcapillary hydraulic pressure gradient [36, 37]. However, whether we ... consider the hypothetical recruitment of dormant cortical nephrons or the increase in net glomerular ultrafiltration pressure, ...